Originally Posted by
Astra driver
Just a technique that I have used for years;
When taxiing out to the assigned runway I always put my heading bug on the assigned rwy heading. Furthermore, if I have no immediate use for the CDI I also align it with runway heading, I also find this technique usefull for aligning with the correct runway on circling approaches. Not saying that I couldn't line up on the wrong runway, but that's all the more reason to use every resource available.
Good technique. Also, if an FMC was aboard, & I don't know if the CRJ-200 ER has one or not, KLEX would have been entered with rwy 22, the A/C triangle would have been centered on rwy22 (between the (II) on the ND, assuming it had an ND. Most takeoffs fly rwy heading until etc. etc. and your point is well taken above.
God bless them all.
jack